Internet in Social Reality of Contemporary Russian Youth: Trends and Risks

Rudenkin, Dmitry; Rudenkina, A.I.

doi:10.32415/jscientia.2019.01.10

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“…Only 4% in Lipetsk and 6% in Moscow do not own accounts, which shows the high value of social media users in Russia in 2019-2020 (Lipetsk -96%, Moscow -94%). It can be noted that the maximum percentage of schoolchildren have profiles not in one network, but in several, the total share of active participants in interaction in social networks is more than 95%, which, indeed, exceeds the percentage of users of social networks in 2018-2019 in Russia [2]. The creating of the permanent platform, blog, on social networks with its own theme and visitors is requiring a certain professional skill and is available to a significantly smaller number of students (Fig.…”

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“…In the last two decades, adolescent behaviour has significantly modified by new environmental factors in the form of digital information technologies embedded in the education, population health and leisure [1]. Teenagers and young people spend much of their time on social media and video games at the expense of physical and social development [2]. In 2013-2015, statistics showed the high involvement of people in many countries in video games using desktop computers, phones and consoles.…”

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Features of the Use of the Internet by Russian Teenagers: The Regional Aspect

Kamenskaya¹,

Tomanov²,

Tatianina³

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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In the last two decades, adolescent behaviour has significantly modified by new factors in the form of information technologies embedded in the education and leisure. There is knowledge that the worse of socio-economic conditions of life determine the increase of gaming activity and communication in social networks of teens. The assumption of our study is that different living conditions in metropolis and industrial city in central Russia determinate the teenagers' actions changes in Internet. The paper used a questionnaire to assess the preferences of gaming and internet activities by students of schools in Moscow and Lipetsk of Russia. Methodical features of the questionnaire in the form of the need to select a single choose from a set of possible answers to the questions determine the specific distribution of teenagers with different kinds of internet activity compared to teenagers in other country. The survey of 144 students of schools in Moscow and Lipetsk online showed both similarities in the use of video games and time on social networks with the well-known features of the younger generation of other countries and the specific features of Russian schoolchildren. Most teenagers of Russia used social media communications compared to gaming, with a sufficient degree of competence, higher in the industrial city, Lipetsk, than Moscow. The time of total interaction with gadgets roughly corresponds to the results of cited works in the sample of teenagers of Lipetsk in Moscow this value is higher. Thus, we have proved the impact of regional conditions on adolescent behaviour in cyberspace with Lipetsk teens' normative characteristic in corresponding Moscow students.

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Features of the Use of the Internet by Russian Teenagers: The Regional Aspect

Kamenskaya¹,

Tomanov²,

Tatianina³

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Digital Technologies and their Impact on the Social and Psychological Characteristics of Adolecsents

Kamenskaya

Tomanov

2022

Experimental Psychology (Russia)

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The article is devoted to the problem of increasing the adolescents’ involvement in virtual cyberspace and the influence of activities in it on their social and psychological characteristics, as well as on the features of the critical brain systems functioning. Close and highest values of use by teenagers the frequency as a means of leisure video games and communication in social networks are considered. At the same time, the increase in the number of users with new technologies, according to modern scientific literature, outpaces the accumulation of knowledge about the influence of the information environment on the human psyche and brain, which are forming and developing in new conditions. There are evidence, provided the high values of the use two main types of digital technologies: virtual communications in social networks and video games, which can be associated with the methodical features of surveys and questionnaires and do not reflect the selectivity of adolescent behavior in cyberspace. Scientific sources suggest that a certain proportion of researchers are positive and optimistic about the use of video games in education and leisure, emphasizing their evolving effects on visual memory, spatial orientation and the ability to make correct decisions in uncertain or complex situations. At the same time, there is little evidence of significant changes in verbal-conceptual intelligence. The structure of intellectual functions changes with an emphasis on non-verbal intelligence clearly demonstrate the directional impact of computer games on the highest mental functions, the degree transformation of which depends on the game practice and content of games. The noted negative effects of adolescent gaming activity on the emotional and social characteristics of gamers’ behavior can be associated not only with the gaming time so perhaps with the premorbid features of adolescents, such as depressive experiences. Most researchers on the impact of over-the-counter social media on the psychological and social characteristics of adolescents express similar views, characterizing fans of virtual communication as aggressive, hostile personalities, with superficial assessments and reduced criticism of information in blogs and accounts. This set of properties of users by social networks creates a basis for their involvement in various anti-social actions in cyberspace and real public life. In connection with these facts, it is necessary and possible to research the role of social networks’ commercialization as the causes of the emergence of underage millionaires, bloggers, whose example and success educates much more effectively than school and family. Clinical study over the fascination with video games and virtual life in social networks are in DSM-V in the form of a special form of technology dependences, internet- addiction. Internet abuses based of the specifics of the activity of neural networks, regulating higher mental functions and behaviors. There is the risk of organic lesions of the central nervous system of modern adolescents and social disability of the younger generation. At present, it is not clear the cause-and-effect relationship of premorbid features of abuser and the rate of addiction formation, which certainly requires further research of adolescents, whose leisure time is increase to many hours of action on the Internet and gadgets. The facts mentioned in the article emphasize the relevance and importance of studying psychophysiological and physiological mechanisms, which are most sensitive to the influence of information factors of the environment. It is necessary to formulate a general practical task of preventing excessive fascination with the Internet and gaming by teenagers, the formation of digital diagnostic methods of assessments of brain and mental functioning, as well as corrective psychological and educational activities and programs.

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Motivation in self-regulation of youth volunteer activities

Pevnaya,

Minchenko,

Belov

2023

Science. Culture. Society

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The research is devoted to the study of youth motivation for volunteer activities. The theoretical basis of the presented study is the concept of youth’s self-regulation. According to its provisions, the motivation of volunteer activity can be considered as an indicator of socio-cultural self-regulation and social adaptation of young volunteers in those situations when certain volunteering practices are considered by them as part of their world. The article analyzes the results of a sociological survey of young students of the Sverdlovsk region aged 14 to 24 (N – 996, quota sample, 2022). The study revealed that the motivation for the volunteer activity of the student youth of the Sverdlovsk region reflects the trends for concretization in the youth consciousness of volunteer efforts and the importance of understanding the possibility to get applicable results both for society and for themselves, аs well as the preference for voluntary practices of constructive civic behavior that enable young people to fulfill their potential. Altruistic motivation and self-confidence motivate high school volunteers. The motivation of students volunteering over the past two years has become more pragmatic and is associated with building social networks and expanding employment opportunities, while studying at a university – with the need to pursue a professional or socio-political career. According to the poll results, it is proved that the internal motivation for volunteering activity as a reflection of the interiorization of values of volunteering and the acceptance of this activity is not formed by the external environment, where youth volunteer projects are organized by the school, youth organizations, and depends on the regularity of volunteer participation of youth and the consequence of this involvement, volunteer self-identification. Certain evidence of young people’s adaptation to the conditions of volunteering popularization and its acceptance is the practice in which they acquire, as volunteers, the experience of related online activities. It is these practices are matched with the demands of society and the inner motivation of volunteering determine the willingness of youth to continue this activity.

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Internet in Social Reality of Contemporary Russian Youth: Trends and Risks

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Features of the Use of the Internet by Russian Teenagers: The Regional Aspect

Features of the Use of the Internet by Russian Teenagers: The Regional Aspect

Digital Technologies and their Impact on the Social and Psychological Characteristics of Adolecsents

Motivation in self-regulation of youth volunteer activities

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